4 months ago
Late or incomplete submissions are welcome!
Hi, Hackers!
Firstly: great job for the teams who have submitted their reports on Wednesday!
Secondly: we would like to give certificates of participation to everyone who worked hard on this hackathon! So if you have partial solutions, partial codes, or complete but late solutions, feel free to submit them at this link: https://devpost.com/submit-to/12997-ieee-grss-boston-hackathon/late-submission . We will keep this link open until Sunday 11:59 pm EDT.
Looking forward to seeing your great work,
IEEE GRSS Hackathon Organizing Team
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum or on Slack.
4 months ago
Deadline Extended to Wednesday
Hi, hackers!
The IEEE GRSS Boston Hackathon organizing committee is providing an opportunity for the participating students to have an extension of the final report submission to Wednesday, August 11th, at 11:45PM EDT. Extra credit will be provided to students who will submit according to the original deadline (August 9th, 5:00PM EDT). However, students who will take advantage of the extension will not be penalized.
We hope this helps!
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum or Slack.
4 months ago
Recording from yesterday and new links
Hi, hackers!
It was a great Q&A session yesterday! If you weren't able to attend, you can check the recording here:
Passcode: Gur%Qwg4
Here is a new link to software download:
https://appliedimagery.com/download/qtmodeler-international-64-bit
For questions about the software please reach out to: support@appliedimagery.com
And here is a link to PointNet (could be useful for Python users!):
https://colab.research.google.com/github/nikitakaraevv/pointnet/blob/master/nbs/PointNetClass.ipynb
Warm regards,
IEEE GRSS Hackathon Organizing Team
Questions?
If you have any questions about the hackathon, please post on the discussion forum or on Slack.
4 months ago
Q&A session tomorrow at 2pm EDT & Example project report
Hi, hackers!
We have two more updates today:
1. We will be hosting a Q&A session tomorrow (Tuesday, August 3rd) at 2 pm EDT (Boston time)! Come with all your questions and concerns and we will try to address as many of them as possible in an hour! The Zoom information for the meeting goes below. If you are able to attend, don't worry -- the session will be recorded!
2. We have uploaded an example project report to our Google Drive. It is a very long and detailed report (we do not expect such a detailed…
4 months ago
Still Need Teammates?
Hi All!
For anyone still looking for teammates, you can filter by "Looking for teammates" in the participant tab or you can join our slack: IEEE GRSS Slack!
We can take a look at the list together and see who may be a good fit for you.
Download material: Our Google Drive.
Come join us in the Chat!
4 months ago
Clarification on the scope of the data analysis
Hi, hackers!
Note that the amount of storage and processing capability required for making neural networks for the complete set of data would be unfeasibly large. Hence, we would like to clarify a few points:
- You are not expected to process all the data! You should select some tiles from the large data set and focus on those. The number of tiles you analyze is up to you.
- The scope is to detect a minimum of one type of damage (for example, building structures that collapsed). If you can detect more than one type of damage, great. But you…
4 months ago
Access to the Quick Terrain Modeler Software
Hi, Hackers!
Here is the information for accessing the Quick Terrain Modeler software:
- Go to https://appliedimagery.com and follow the instructions to download and install the free trial software.
- Once installed, email your "Workstation ID" to info@appliedimagery.com . Remember to mention that you are a student participating in the IEEE GRSS Hackathon!
- And you should be good to go!
If you run into any issues, let us know and we will help as much as we can! If you have questions on the software itself, reach out to Mike at support@appliedimagery.com .
Warm regards,
IEEE GRSS Hackathon Organizing Team
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4 months ago
Kick-off: link to the recorded session and the data for analysis
Hi, hackers!
It was great seeing you in the Zoom kick-off meeting this morning! If you missed the event, don't worry. You can watch the recorded video using this link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/bSLfERHvqP3IGzvbdSL1ijczDAq8xsZIJ07PCEBnYFWY2koVzx4gSllsJf_wP6Ee.hBVd1MKe3E2qAXy8 Passcode: Bt7%u@TM
We would also like to share the link to the Google Drive folder where you can download the data that was shown by Chad and Mike today:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gz1jgikVEoHs0amEjYVVhJL0S5LQ77-4?usp=sharing
We will follow up soon with instructions on how to download, install and license the Quick Terrain Modeler software -- stay tuned!
Warm regards,
IEEE GRSS Hackathon Organizing Team
Questions?
If you…
4 months ago
Welcome to the IEEE GRSS 2021 Hackathon
Welcome to the IEEE GRSS 2021 Hackathon!
The Hackathon officially starts tomorrow and we are all super excited and looking forward to the great work you will do in the coming days! The kick-off session will happen tomorrow at 11 am EDT. We will use this time to explain the Hackathon deliverables, show you the data you will have access to, introduce the organizing team, and start the team formation process. The meeting will happen over Zoom (the call-in information goes below).
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Warm regards,
IEEE GRSS Hackathon Organizing Team
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